daver
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Generally speaking, the former is ignored in a historical sense while the latter is revered. The 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning and the 2023 Boston Bruins were are among the greatest President Trophy winners of all-time but with no Cup to accompany this, their accomplishment is relegated to almost a trivial level. At best, an all-time great regular season can be the icing on the cake of a Cup win like the '76 Habs. At worst, they can almost drag a team down like the mid-90s Wings until they win a Cup.
Meanwhile individual regular seasons are, generally speaking, the backbone of a player's all-time rating. There are a few exceptions but the very best individual regular season performers are rated the greatest of all-time.
I think winning the Cup is everything in most people's eyes but there is a range in how individual playoff performances are judged from being on equal footing with RS performances to merely being a "sample" of a player's career however many games that may be.
Why is there such a discrepancy in the treatment of team success and player evaluation?
Meanwhile individual regular seasons are, generally speaking, the backbone of a player's all-time rating. There are a few exceptions but the very best individual regular season performers are rated the greatest of all-time.
I think winning the Cup is everything in most people's eyes but there is a range in how individual playoff performances are judged from being on equal footing with RS performances to merely being a "sample" of a player's career however many games that may be.
Why is there such a discrepancy in the treatment of team success and player evaluation?